EU Plans to Withhold Aid From Africa if It Fails to Stop Illegals: Report
The European Commission would have planned to make changes to the EU’s foreign aid policy, forcing African countries to prevent illegal migration to Europe in order to receive funding.
In the wake of conservatives and populists making important gains in the elections by the European Parliament from last year, Brussels seems ready to move to anti-illlegal migration policies privileged by the tastes of Italian Giorgia Meloni.
According to an internal document describing proposals for the budget of next seven years seen by Politico, the executive power of the EU would have prompted to link foreign aid with the concessions of African countries to prevent illegal immigrants from going to Europe.
“It must combine all the appropriate tools and the necessary lever effect thanks to a flexible incentive approach with, if necessary in this context, possible changes in [the] The allocation of financing linked to migration, “said the committee’s document.
Traditionally, the EU has hesitated to link foreign policy requests to help, as is often done by other powers such as the United States.
However, the approach to specifically connecting border protections using aid was launched in 2023 by Italian Prime Minister Meloni, who played a key role in the negotiation of similar transactions between the EU and the North African nations such as Tunisia and Libya.
Rome has also negotiated bilateral economic development agreements throughout North Africa to reduce illegal immigration to its coast. This has borne fruit for the Meloni government, illegal immigration to Italy having been reduced by 56% so far this year compared to 2023.
However, for the EU Parliament to adopt such a larger approach, it would probably need the approval of the groups of pro-open Bordeaux on the left, including the Greens and the Socialists, who have already become more and more critical of the EU Economy Commission der Leyen to stimulate the anamic economic growth of the EU.
There has also been a decline against Meloni style plans for Africa in the midst of allegations according to which the Tunisian National Guard had engaged in a generalized abuse of migrants, in particular hundreds of rapes and violence against children, while lounging with people who smuggle people operating in the country to facilitate medical crosses in exchange for money.
Meanwhile, the other pillar of Meloni’s strategy, sending illegals to third countries like Albania so that their allegations of asylum are treated abroad rather than allowing them to stay in Europe during the interval, remains in doubt.
Although the plan has won the support of several other EU nations, it is currently embellished in judicial disputes in Rome and at the EU level, with an appeal currently underway at the European Court of Justice to find out if individual member states have the right to determine which countries are considered “safe” for the return of migrants.
Meloni also faced recent criticism after his government approved a program this month to grant 500,000 work visas between 2026 and 2028, taking the total number of visas authorized by his watch to almost a million, which led some to question his campaign commitment to reduce migration. Although the vast majority of visas are for seasonal work, as in Italian farms, the visa often exceeds a key engine of illegal immigration, with many migrants simply in Italy disappearing in the countryside and often accepting effective modern slavery conditions after their visa.
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